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Dr Charles Daubeiiy on the 



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Now, the circumstance which, in a geological sense, at- 

 taches the highest interest to the structure of this mountain, 

 is the support which it appears to afford to the theory of ele- 

 vation ; the view, that is, which regards volcanic mountains, 

 as formed in tlie first instance by such a sudden upheave- 

 ment as might have brought the masses of rock of which 

 they consist, from a nearly horizontal position, into their pre- 

 sent inclined one, and at the same time caused them to occupy 

 a much higher relative level than they had done antecedently. 



This view of the original formation of volcanic mountains 

 has been maintained by some of the most distinguished of 

 modern geologists ; by Humboldt, by Von Buch, by Elie de 

 Beaumont, by Dufrenoy, and by Abich. 



But as it has met with able opponents, in Lyell and Scrope 

 in this country, and in Mons. Prevost in France, it is satis- 



